Games Like Ymir

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, 4X 21.2% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Grand Strategy 11.2% ★, Economy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive scale of colony management combined with complex economic systems that mirror Ymir's depth.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 40.8%, Colony Sim 38.5%, Strategy 6.2%, Economy 5.5%, Historical 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the same prehistoric progression and survival-based city development found in Ymir's early game.

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Grand Strategy 17.2% ★, Colony Sim 11.8%, 4X 10.7% ★, Economy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines organic city-building with tactical strategy and territorial expansion in a medieval setting.

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 38%, Colony Sim 28.3%, Economy 11%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused city-builder that incorporates 4X elements like territory expansion and trade.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.1%, City Builder 22.2%, Strategy 7.5%, Building 7.3%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, providing unparalleled depth in social and economic simulation.

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, 4X 19.2% ★, City Builder 18%, Grand Strategy 11% ★, Economy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on social simulation and dynasty management within a city, adding a layer of political depth.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, City Builder 31.5%, Building 10.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The most complex simulation of civilization growth and survival available, perfect for fans of deep systems.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 19.8%, 4X 13.1% ★, Economy 11.1%, Grand Strategy 11% ★

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep economic and infrastructure simulation that rewards long-term planning.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 48%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Economy 12.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Building 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless city-builder that emphasizes organic growth and complex resource production chains.

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 18.1%, 4X 17.7% ★, Economy 9.8%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Blends real-time strategy with 4X-style expansion and survival mechanics in a Norse-themed world.

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 28.2%, Economy 12.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic historical city-builder that features highly detailed economic systems and citizen needs.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41%, City Builder 37.8%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 4.9%, Economy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive survival city-builder that established the core resource-management loop for many modern titles.

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9%, City Builder 34.9%, Building 8.9%, Strategy 6%, Simulation 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines voxel-based building with colony management and combat in a charming, strategic package.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 27.4%, Economy 17.4%, Strategy 6.9%, Historical 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep colony management with vertical building mechanics and survival-focused gameplay.

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, City Builder 39.3%, Strategy 6.1%, Building 5.4%, Simulation 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that requires careful resource management to endure harsh seasons.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, City Builder 27.7%, Economy 13%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on managing the social hierarchy and production of a medieval village.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, City Builder 34.5%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 5.7%, Simulation 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A prehistoric colony-sim that mirrors the early-game development and tribal progression of Ymir.

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, City Builder 33.4%, Strategy 7.9%, Building 7.8%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim with a strong focus on resource management, defense, and complex crafting.

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, City Builder 28.5%, Economy 12.8%, Building 7%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that blends survival mechanics with Norse-themed city development and expansion.

ENDLESS Legend™ is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS Space™ and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!

Why similar: 4X 62.7% ★, Strategy 20.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Grand Strategy 6.8% ★, Indie 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X game with distinct faction identities and terrain-based city building that feels very strategic.

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, City Builder 29.8%, Building 9.1%, Alternate History 7.2%, Historical 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the development of early human tribes and societal structures similar to Ymir's start.

Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Economy 13.3%, Building 7.5%, Historical 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of clicker mechanics and 4X strategy for rapid civilization building and management.

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Colony Sim 34.3%, Economy 10.9%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 6%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that emphasizes trade, economic stability, and population management.

Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.

Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8% ★, Economy 14.8%, Alternate History 9.4%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X strategy game that covers the breadth of human history with a focus on technological and societal evolution.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, City Builder 31.3%, Economy 11.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Building 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A social-focused city-builder with complex political and survival mechanics that impact your population.

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 27.4%, Economy 16.7%, Building 8.8%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economic and production side of medieval city-building and resource chains.

Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.

Why similar: 4X 31% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Grand Strategy 12.8% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X game that allows for cultural evolution across different eras, similar to the progression in Ymir.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, 4X 18.8% ★, City Builder 18%, Economy 11.1%, Grand Strategy 10.9% ★

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 18.9%, 4X 18.2% ★, Grand Strategy 11.3% ★, Economy 11.2%

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 24.1%, Grand Strategy 13% ★, Economy 12.6%, Strategy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that captures the unique flavor and challenges of ancient civilizations.

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Colony Sim 34.1%, Building 9%, Strategy 6.9%, Historical 5.9%

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.8%, City Builder 31.7%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 2.7%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique survival city-builder set on a floating platform that requires constant resource balancing.

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 25.4%, 4X 20% ★, Economy 10.8%, Building 5.5%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9%, City Builder 41.8%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6%, Indie 2.2%

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Grand Strategy 14.8% ★, Economy 14%, Historical 5.6%

It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, 4X 20.4% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Grand Strategy 12.5% ★, Economy 9.9%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, 4X 17.8% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Grand Strategy 10.6% ★, Economy 10.4%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, 4X 18.1% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Grand Strategy 10.8% ★, Economy 10.5%

MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.

Why similar: City Builder 51.2%, Economy 30.8%, Simulation 9.3%, Management 6.1%, Indie 2.6%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, 4X 19.2% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Grand Strategy 11.1% ★, Economy 10.7%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, City Builder 28.1%, 4X 20.4% ★, Historical 8.1%, Strategy 6.3%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: 4X 28.8% ★, Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 25.9%, Building 7%, Strategy 6.1%

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, 4X 22.9% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Grand Strategy 12.2% ★, Building 7.2%

A unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay, Distant Kingdoms brings a rich fantasy world to life. Help the Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Orcs of Talam, begin anew in the fabled land of Ineron.

Why similar: City Builder 68.9%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 12.4%, Indie 4.6%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Colony Sim 33.1%, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.6%, Simulation 4.4%

Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.

Why similar: 4X 25% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Grand Strategy 14.5% ★, Economy 12.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.2%, City Builder 26.3%, Building 7.3%, Economy 7%, Strategy 5.4%

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 51.3%, City Builder 18.8%, Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Strategy 6.5%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 24.8%, Economy 15.8%, Building 8%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 26%, Economy 15.9%, Building 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, City Builder 35.5%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 5.7%, Simulation 4.4%

Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.

Why similar: City Builder 76.8%, Strategy 18.2%, Indie 5%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Economy 23%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 9.3%, Historical 8.8%

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 27.7%, Economy 16.7%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 4.8%

Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, 4X 18.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, Economy 12.3%, Building 8.1%

Experience the classic gameplay of 1503 A.D.: The New World, optimized for current computers with resolutions up to 4K.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 24.4%, Grand Strategy 14.3% ★, Economy 9.9%, Strategy 6.2%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 29%, Economy 14.2%, Building 9%, Strategy 5.3%

Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?

Why similar: 4X 29.8% ★, Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 18.2%, Grand Strategy 11.5% ★, Multiplayer 6%